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PayPal Acquires Xoom for $890 mm<br />
Xoom: Management Team<br />
John Kunze<br />
President, Chief Executive<br />
Officer<br />
■ Joined Xoom as a director in 2004; was named CEO of Xoom in 2006<br />
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Prior to Xoom, John was President, CEO <strong>and</strong> Board Member at Plumtree Software, an<br />
enterprise software solutions provider<br />
Ryno Blignaut<br />
Chief Financial Officer <strong>and</strong><br />
Chief Risk Officer<br />
Julian King<br />
SVP of Marketing <strong>and</strong> Corp<br />
Dev<br />
Christopher Ferro<br />
VP <strong>and</strong> General Counsel<br />
Frank Walter<br />
VP of Operations<br />
Joseph Raymond<br />
VP of Product Development<br />
Ramsey Lubbat<br />
VP of Development<br />
Source: PayPal website, SEC filings, Capital IQ.<br />
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Re-joined Xoom in January 2015 as Acting Chief Financial Officer <strong>and</strong> Chief Risk Officer<br />
Prior to joining Xoom, Ryno worked as a financial regulation consultant with RSM<br />
Robson Rhodes LLP, an accounting firm; he also served as Head of Finance for PayPal<br />
UK from 2002-2003<br />
Leads the Company’s marketing, advertising, public relations, business development<br />
<strong>and</strong> strategies<br />
Prior to joining Xoom, Julian was VP of Marketing <strong>and</strong> Products at Earthlink for the<br />
PeoplePC Online business<br />
Prior to joining Xoom in 2008, Christopher was Senior Counsel at PayPal Inc; he was the<br />
second lawyer hired at PayPal in 2001<br />
Practiced law at two firms in New York before working for PayPal <strong>and</strong> Xoom<br />
Vice President of Operations at Xoom since 2009, runs customer operations, network<br />
operations <strong>and</strong> contact centers<br />
Prior to joining Xoom, Frank held various operational leadership roles at AT&T, Good<br />
Technology / Motorola <strong>and</strong> VCA Antech / Eklin Medical Systems<br />
Named Vice President of Product Development in 2011, <strong>and</strong> is responsible for delivering<br />
relevant <strong>and</strong> usable online <strong>and</strong> mobile solutions<br />
Joseph was previously a Director of Retail Business at Cafepress.com <strong>and</strong> VP of User<br />
apps at Pay by Touch<br />
Joined Xoom in 2006 <strong>and</strong> is Vice President of Development, responsible for software<br />
development <strong>and</strong> quality assurance<br />
Before joining Xoom, Ramsey worked for Inovis, where he worked on Catalogue, a large<br />
B2B product synchronization solution for retailers<br />
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